Новости за 24.06.2015

A calendar of nearby events of interest to people living on U.S. facilities in the Pacific.

Planned for 227,000 gross registered tons, Royal Caribbean Harmony of the Seas had its final block of ship structure lowered into place at the STX France shipyards in Saint Nazaire, France, last week.

Stroll the heart of Calle Ocho, from 12th Avenue west to 17th, past small bars, cafes and “tiendas” (stores), and you’re rarely beyond earshot of loudspeakers airing percussive Latin music. The street hints at a Havana that was, that isn’t and what might come to pass.

When I was offered innumerable excursions on my Holland America Line Alaska cruise, my first choice was Glacier Point Wilderness Safari in Haines.

“Ted 2” asks a question that we never needed, or particularly wanted, to know the answer to: Is Ted, the magical, foul-mouthed, pot-smoking teddy bear, a person in the eyes of the law?

Quincinio D. Canada and Dawan Q. Mulazim each are charged with murder, two counts of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault in the death of Jonathan Price and the assault on his wife, Megan.

Cody Liberty will not be reporting to jury duty July 20 as Jackson County recently ordered. He died more than eight years ago.

The start of extraction is a huge step for a project that has been more than 15 years in the making and that, after a slow start, has made giant strides in the last year.

Gov. Jay Inslee weighed in Monday on the Kennewick Man debate, asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hand the 9,000-year-old skeleton over to the Northwest tribes that have fought nearly two decades for the remains.

When Northeastern State University archives assistant Blain McLain saw the ribbon, he knew the document he was holding was important. That document was the Watie Treaty, signed on June 23, 1865, by Brig. Gen. Stand Watie.

Boeing on Tuesday announced that CEO Jim McNerney, who led the aerospace giant for the past decade, will step down July 1. His successor is chief operating officer Dennis A. Muilenburg, who joined the company as an intern 30 years ago.

One week before a deadline for a deal on Iran's nuclear program, the country's supreme leader on Tuesday ruled out inspections of nuclear sites and a long-term freeze of nuclear activities, while demanding that sanctions be lifted immediately.

There has been widespread concern about the consequences for global markets if Greece defaults on its debts and is forced to give up the euro. But how would a tiny American naval base on the island of Crete fare?

Military veterans have gotten sick of the same old story being told in pop culture: Men and women heroically go off to battle and return broken, unable to reintegrate into society.

Moving nearly a brigade’s worth of U.S. tanks and other armored vehicles to locations across eastern Europe by next summer is more than a symbolic gesture of reassurance, the Army’s top commander in Europe said Wednesday.

The U.S. Navy rotated its forward-deployed amphibious ready groups Sunday as the Essex Amphibious Ready Group entered the Middle East, replacing the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, which is nearing the end of its seven-month deployment.

On a hillside overlooking a field students play volleyball, an inconspicuous entrance leads down a dusty, slippery slope — and seemingly back in time — to Japan's secret Imperial Navy headquarters in the final months of World War II.

If he can’t use that word to advance the conversation, who can?

Maj. Gen. Duane A. Gamble replaced Maj. Gen. John R. O’Connor as commander of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command — the U.S. military’s primary logistics unit in Europe — in a ceremony that was by turns serious and funny.

The latest survey on global views of the United States generally shows positive opinions, with support for military action against the Islamic State group and the rebalance of U.S. forces to the Pacific.

Scientists and volunteers tethered in safety gear and ice cleats painstakingly scoured the frozen dirt and ice to see if a glacier had given up any more of its dead before they are swept into a lake and lost to history.

Two Philippine soldiers have been killed and three others wounded in bomb attacks by Abu Sayyaf militants in a southern province, the military said Wednesday.

The U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research is using frogs to study the effects of the chemicals perchlorate and periodate on their endocrine systems.

The U.S. ambassador to France has been summoned to the French Foreign Ministry following revelations by WikiLeaks that the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropped on the past three French presidents.

The federal government has for years failed to take basic steps to protect its data from hackers and thieves, putting at risk everything from nuclear secrets to the private tax information of hundreds of millions of Americans, records show.